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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 44 km W of Meulaboh, Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.0861S, 95.7313WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Meulaboh in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/16 / 2016-06-27 03:50:46 / June 27, 2016 @ 3:50 am. Exact location, longitude 95.7313° East, latitude 4.0861° North, depth = 45.33 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.33 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:50:46 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005z6b. Unique identifier: us10005z6b.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Meulaboh. Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km W of Meulaboh, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.7313° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.0861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km W of Meulaboh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-27 03:50:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-12 03:20:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.66 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005z6b Id of event.
Event Code 10005z6b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005z6b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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